Academic Vocab
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100
  • makes key decisions that affect the plot, primarily influencing the story and propelling it forward, and is often the character who faces the most significant obstacles.

What is Main Character-

100
  • a piece of writing that partakes of the nature of both speech and song that is nearly always rhythmical, usually metaphorical, and often exhibits such formal elements as meter, rhyme, and stanza structure.

What is Poem?

100

 a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another. It may provide clarity or identify hidden similarities between two different ideas.

What is metaphor?

  • Her eyes were diamonds.
  • He is a shining star.
  • The snow is a white blanket.
100
  • how the information within a written text is organized.

What is Structure?

100
  •  a position or perspective from which something is considered or evaluated 

What is Viewpoint?

200

the time, place, and circumstances in which something occurs or develops the time and place of the action of a literary, dramatic, or cinematic work the scenery used in a theatrical or film production.

What is Setting

200

the underlying message or big idea of a talk, book, film, or other work. Synonyms: message, purpose, essence

What is Theme?

200
  • a figure of speech that directly compares two things. This differ from other metaphors by highlighting the similarities between two things using comparison words such as "like", "as", "so", or " than", while other metaphors create an implicit comparison.

What is Simile?

  • My love is like a red rose.
  • My brother and I fight like cats and dogs all the time.
  • India is always as busy as a bee.
  • My cousin chatters like a monkey.
200
  • the events in a story happen in order from beginning to end. 

What is Chronological order?

200

 a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.

What is Opinion?

300
  • things that happen in a story.

What is Events

300
  •  in informational text, the author’s attitude toward a topic or subject in literary text, a character’s attitude

What is Perspective?

300
  •  the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

What is Personification?

“The sun smiled down on us.” 'The story jumped off the page.” “The light danced on the surface of the water.”

300
  • the process of identifying the similarities and differences between two things. 

What is Compare and Contrasts?

300
  • a thing that is known or proved to be true.

What is Fact?

400

Any account of a series of related events or experiences, whether nonfictional or fictional.

What is Story?

400

a repetition of similar sounds in the final stressed syllables and any following ______ of two or more words. Most often, this kind of perfect ________ is consciously used for artistic effect in the final position of lines within poems or songs.

What is Rhyme?

cat - hat
sore - more

can - man

400
  • a phrase or expression that typically presents a figurative, non-literal meaning attached to the phrase.

What is Idiom?

He has bigger fish to fry.

(He has bigger things to take care of than what we are talking about now.)

He's a chip off the old block

(The son is like the father)

400
  •  a pattern of organization where information in a passage is expressed as a dilemma or concerning issue and something that was, can be, or should be done to remedy this issue.

What is Problem/solution?

400
  •  take large selections of text and reduce them, making sure to include the main points and the general idea of the article 

What is Summarize?

500

The sequence of events where each affects the next one through the principle of cause-and-effect.

What is Plot?

500
  • the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse.

What is Meter?

500

how the information within a written text is organized.

What is Structure?

500
  • what we figure out based on an experience. Helping students understand when information is implied, or not directly stated, will improve their skill in drawing conclusions and making _________.

What is Inference?

500
  • Sources, such as diaries, speeches, interviews, letters, official records, that provide first-hand testimony or direct evidence witnessed or recorded by someone who experienced the event(s) or condition(s) being documented

What is Primary Source?

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